The Bet 2: Dark Secrets

By: Fox Almasy

Ch. 13

What Are Friends For?

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Fuma flipped through an ordering magazine, before sighing and tossing it onto the counter. Iaga, Koga and Negora were going over some of the instruments to make sure they were tuned. It had been an extremely slow day so everyone jumped up as the tiny bell over the door rang. Fuma smiled as Brad stepped into the store and glanced around.

"Brad . . . How you feeling I heard about what happened a few months ago."

"It's been tough, but everything's ok now. Its just . . . I need a big favor."

"What sort of favor?" Brad quickly glanced about the room before moving closer to Fuma and leaning on the counter.

"I need you to get rid of someone." Fuma stood up from her chair, sensing the seriousness of the situation.

"Who is this person?"

"My manager Sarah Obscura. She messed with my family too many times and I've had enough." Fuma looked at the others before looking back at Brad and nodding.

"What ever you need."

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Naomi laughed at Rosco as he lay on the ground and allowed Wade and Wesley to climb on him. Wade soon abandoned that idea and crawled towards Naomi and smiled up at her, before grabbing a hold of her shirt and pulling himself to his feet.

"What are you doing baby?" she cooed and reached for him and lifted him into her arms. He laughed happily before snuggling against her shoulder and sticking his thumb in his mouth. "Someone is tired." she stood up and after picking Wesley up, she carried them to their room.

When she came back downstairs, Brad was walking through the doors. She wasn't expecting him until a lot later and he seemed really grim.

"Where were you?"

"Just had to go talk with someone. Don't worry everything will be fine now." Naomi frowned at his cryptic answer. He hadn't said where he was going or who he was seeing. Trying to ignore the feeling she had she smiled instead.

"Are you hungry? The twins and I already ate, but I can warm you something up."

"OK." Naomi watched Brad sit down and couldn't help but see that he appeared a little jumpy.

"Are you alright?"

"Yeah I'm fine."

"OK." She disappeared into the kitchen and warmed him a plate of food and brought it out to him in the living room. "You sure you're ok, you look a little stressed."

"I'm fine don't worry."

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Sarah opened the door to her lavishly decorated home and tossed her bag and coat onto the chair in the hallway. She had a scowl on her face as she moved about the house. No matter what she did, no matter how severe the situation those bastards always seemed to make it out. Opening her fridge she grabbed out a bottle of water and slammed the door shut. She then walked into the living room and sat down on the couch glaring across the room at nothing.

Someone knocked on the door and Sarah looked up and sigh in frustration. She wasn't in the mood to be seeing anyone. Walking to the door she grabbed the handle. "Who is it?" When no one answered she became suspicious. She started to reach for the lock and stepped back as the door burst open.

A woman entered with three men and looked about before looking over at Sarah and grinning. "You must be Sarah Obscura right?"

"Get out of my house." the woman looked back at the men and laughed.

"It doesn't seem that you are in any position to tell me what to do."

"What do you want? What are you doing here?"

"Well you see someone asked me to do them a little favor and I'm here to keep my promise." Sarah's eyes widened as the woman lifted her gun and fired. Fuma lowered her gun and watched Sarah's body drop to the ground. She placed the gun in the waistband of her jeans before looking at the others. "Alright, we need to make this look like a robbery. So take what you feel is most valuable and we'll dump it in the river. Don't get your finger prints on anything either." they nodded and head off through the house in search of expensive items.

Fuma looked down at Sarah as she pulled on a pair of leather gloves and began removing the pricey watch and other assorted jewelry. It took them about an hour to gather all the items, before they headed back out. No one saw them climb into their car and take off.

They drove to a river about ten miles away and proceeded to dump what they had taken into the water. Fuma wiped the gun, which wasn't registered, and watched it all sink before returning to the car and climbing in. She looked at Koga, who was sitting next to her, and nodded.

"Is everyone sure there were no finger prints on anything?"

"We're sure boss."

"Good, let's go."

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Naomi sighed as she flipped through TV channels and was annoyed by the fact that nothing was on. The twins were asleep and Naomi finally had some time to herself. She sat for a moment and stared out the large windows that ran from the floor to the top of the two story vaulted ceiling. The sky was darkening and Naomi knew Brad would be back soon from Benji's. Changing the channel to a news station, Naomi stood and walked into the kitchen, where she could still hear the TV. She stared into the fridge, only half paying attention as she listened to the latest news.

"First tonight, a freeze in California has damaged thousands of acres of citrus and other crops and later a mysterious murder in New York has left police at a dead end." she thought briefly to her parents and where they lived in California. The other story hadn't registered as she pulled out some meat and began defrosting it in the microwave. She then wandered back into the living room and sat down.

When the story had ended about California, the murder story came on and Naomi sat up a little as an image of a large beautiful house was displayed.

"Sarah Obscura was found shot in her home earlier today. Someone had broke in and were obviously surprised by Obscura's presence. It seemed to have started out as just being a robbery, but unfortunately Obscura was in the wrong place at the wrong time. No finger prints or traces could be found, although police are still looking." Naomi's eyes widened as a cold chill ran down her spine. She felt sick to her stomach as she realized that Brad had been gone all day.

"What a shame huh?" Naomi looked behind her as Brad walked up to the back of the couch, eyes on the screen.

"Brad . . . You didn't?" He looked down at her, face blank.

"It wasn't me. At least she wont be bothering us anymore."

"You seem awfully calm about this."

"How do you want me to act?"

"I don't know . . . It just seems like you knew already." She stood up and faced him. She looked into his eyes trying to see if he was lying or not.

"I just don't care to much. The bitch deserved it. We have nothing to worry about now." he didn't say anymore and simply disappeared upstairs as one of the twins began to cry. Sighing Naomi went back into the kitchen and started their dinner.

The next day Naomi lay awake watching Brad as he slept. He hadn't lied, but she knew he wasn't being completely honest either. She glanced over at the clock and saw that it read ten thirty already. She had taken care of the twins earlier and they had fallen back to sleep at around eight.

Naomi slipped out of the bed and wandered downstairs. She went into the kitchen and made herself a bowl of cereal and sat silently eating. At around eleven Brad had come down stairs, fully dressed and carrying the twins. He kissed Naomi quickly before handing her one of the twins. Someone knocked on the door and Naomi looked in the direction of the front door with a frown. She looked over at Brad and watched him leave to go answer the door.

Their voices were muffled, but Naomi could tell by the tone that it was serious. She slipped out of the kitchen and was surprised to see an officer at the door. He glanced towards her before resuming his talk with Brad. Brad looked over his shoulder at her before smiling slightly.

"They're gonna take me down to the stations for some questions. I'll be back a little later alright." Naomi nodded and didn't like the feeling she was getting at the moment. Ten minutes later a car pulled into the driveway and both Riley and Kira exited the car. Naomi opened the front door before they could even knock, and waited for them to climb the stairs.

"What's going on?"

"You heard about Sarah Obscura right?"

"Yeah."

"Well Benji was taken in for questioning."

"So was Brad. Come in."

They stayed at the house all day and finally at about three-thirty a patrol car pulled up in front of the house and both Brad and Benji climbed out. They spoke to the officer and then climbed the stairs that led to the front door. They looked tired and Naomi was a little hesitant to ask questions.

Finally Brad looked up at Naomi and smiled.

"We kind of hadn't had anything to eat today. Do you mind fixing us something?"

"Of course." she warmed up some lasagna that she had made and made two plates for Benji and Brad. Naomi was bursting to ask them what had happened. She watched them eat for a minute before crossing her arms. "So what happened?"

"They just asked us some questions. They're convinced it was a robbery, but just as a precaution they needed to follow the usual procedure. They wont be bothering us again. And neither will Sarah. We've got nothing to worry about now."

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Sorry this is a little short, but oh well it's done. Just one more chapter after this hope you enjoyed.